Remote work is clearly the best way for smaller companies to compete to attract talent. This greatly increases the size of the pool of potential hires.
Interesting and provoking thought... Indeed it's hard to build communities while also aiming for rapid and constant growth. There's no chance of having communities properly stabilize which leads to the tribalism and bad behavior we see on social media.
Interesting insights about the minutiae of the CTO role.
Interesting points in this article. The exact definition doesn't matter much. What really matters is the common understanding within a team of what technical debt is. It's also a good idea to be able to link it to actual money and business impacts.
Clearly a bit US centric but interesting trends nonetheless. We might see some of that reaching Europe (for good and for bad) fairly quickly. At least regarding hybrid work, flexible offices and more asynchronous communication, I've seen it globally spread already.
Nice overview of what it takes to increase your uptime. It can get expensive quickly. This is also a good reminder that it's not only about software, it's a lot about people and administrative constraints as well.
This was only a matter of time. It'll be interesting to see how this will unfold. Potentially it could turn into lawsuit cases being built up, it could also mean content producers get a cut down the line... of course could be both. Since FOSS code also ends up in training those models I'm even wondering if that could lead to money going back to the authors. We'll see where that goes.
Hm... interesting framework. Especially for me, I know I tend to be too verbose. Definitely something I'm willing to try.
OK, not a perfect article, I think there are a couple of blind spots in the reasoning (I doubt all the estimates were as systematically bloated as presented here). Still, it's another interesting account of the problems created by the cargo cult agile. It indeed seems to resonate with the fact that the tech sector is very hype driven. A lot of useless work then ensues.
When they changed their statutes it was the first sign... now it's clear all ethics went through the window. It's about fueling the hype to drive money home.
Interesting business model. Could be a new path for at least some maintainers to be sustainably funded. Still a lot of unknowns though... probably worth keeping an eye on it.
As they say: follow the money. That gives an idea about the incentives and various agendas behind this take over.
Looks like a good set of resources for OSPO and compliance in companies.
Nice succinct form to present a strategy.
Interesting framework for sustaining a strategic train of thoughts for the long term. This can't be a fix thing, it needs to live and breather which this approach seems to foster.
Interesting take on burnout as an organizational phenomenon and the consequences. This is not simply about the amount of work.
Interesting point. It's clearly not easy to get proper feedback depending the size of the group we're reaching out to.
Very good primer on Conway's Law by Martin Fowler. Definitely recommended, obviously this is just a start and requires diving deeper in the topic.
Hear! Hear! No, moving your infrastructure to managed services doesn't make sense in all cases. You need to be in the right place in term of complexity and traffic to really benefit from it. It's less common than you'd think due to the marketing pressure.
Very interesting report although I admit I'm a bit skeptical at the strong "apolitical" message in it. This highlights very well a few challenges specific to Europe. We need to see them tackled I think. It's nice to see moves in the public sector but clearly it needs to go further and faster. Same thing regarding the creation of OSPOs in companies.